CompuServe Messages

I don't use a mailer that lets me chat. Wouldn't want to chat online anyway. Alf does have a small update to Blob Sculptor, but the cylinders, etc. aren't in there yet. He did add DXF output directly to the program. Truman got ahold of the source from him and bulletproofed the interface, too. Last word from Alf was that he had fixed a bug with the smoothing normals. Really is a slick little utility. POV-Ray 3.0 (or whatever) has been started, but progress is slow right now. Chris Young is tearing out a few walls to make room for all the new furniture that we've got waiting on the front porch, so to speak. We have got MANY exciting new features waiting. If we even get half of them into the next version, we'll have one heck of a ray tracer. Proposed (that's like the "alleged" that you see in the newspapers) new stuff includes a couple of speedups, a bunch of new textures, Truetype fonts, focal blur, and a couple of really unique "secret weapons". It'll probably be a year or so before we can get it all done and tested, though. As I mentioned before, don't count on me checking in here very often. Just wanted to see what sort of neat stuff was going on over here. Oh, BTW: If you haven't already done so, I'd suggest that you check into the status of the word "Metaball". I believe it's a trademark. (My suggestion for naming Blob Sculptor was "Meatball" <g>)